Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39574, John Gilman, Va.

SERVICE
Vir.
Gilman, John
NUMBER _____
S. 39574
CONTENTS

District of Virginia, S.S.
On this 27 th day of February 1822 personally appeared in open Court, (being a court of record because it proceeds according to the course of the common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings) for the County of Hanover, John Gilman aged Sixty Two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of March the 18 th 1818 and 1 st of May 1820 that he the said John Gilman enlisted for the term of eighteen months on the day of April 1780 in the state of Virginia in the Company Commanded by Capt Benjamin Timberlake in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Francis Taylor in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the day of September in the year 1781 when he was discharged from the said service in Winchester in the state of Virginia. That he was in no battles — That he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby, so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18 th day of March 1818, And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me. Nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, Viz: a little household furniture, that he has a wife between thirty and forty years of age & two children, one about three & the other about one year old that he is a farmer by occupation, but

unable to do heard labor and that he stands in need of support from his Country
John Gilman
Sworn to and declared on the 27 th day of February 1822 before me William Pollard E.B. Crenshaw Presiding Magistrate of the said Court. E.B. Crenshaw
Virginia, Hanover County, to wit, I William Pollard Clerk of the Court of the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing transcript is a true copy from the records of the said County Court of Hanover; & I do hereby certify that the said Court was of opinion that the whole value of the property mentioned in the Schedule contained in the said Transcript was thirty Dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the second day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty two
William Pollard Clerk of the County Court of Hanover
I certify that the within John Gilman is now in his house for some years, a resident of the District of Columbia & has been in the State of Virginia - about 16 years. chd: J. Greenfield
Adm. de con. J.L.G.

I certify that the within John Garrison is now & has been for some years, a resident Southwest of the County of Fauquier, in the State of
Virginia - checked 16 W 22
and Steven J. Kelly.
Adm. - do
con. J.L.E.

18512.
Virginia
John Gilman
of Hanover Co in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Taylor — of the Virginia line, for the term of 17 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of February 1822
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of March 1822 and sent to the Hon. A. Stevenson
Arrears to 4th of March 1822 $1 60 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 6 Sep. 1822 48
2/28 & 4/31
$49 60
74
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
11 May 1820
file Sept. 22

39 574 INVALID.
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am
File No. 39,574
John Gilman Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 195
[Arrangement of 1870.]